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As the Crow Flies
Roger Deakin Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees “Cockatoo” ‘Suppose you couldn’t see a single tree. How would you find water?’ I asked Latz and Albrecht. ‘You would have to kill a wallaby or something, rub the meat with plenty of … Continue reading
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Haikus for Aliens: Picture Books
The Guardian interviews Cressida Cowell, Children’s Laureate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/12/cressida-cowell-childrens-laureate-how-to-train-your-dragon […] Her ultimate aim is to get children “as excited about reading and books as they are about films and telly”. “Because – I’ll just hit you with it,” she says, leaning … Continue reading
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Tugging at my reading of this aphorism is the title of a book of interviews with Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Reading is knowledge, but writing is power. Dave Eggers From an interview in The Guardian … Continue reading
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On Stock Responses
Northrop Frye The Well-Tempered Critic Again, stock response cannot read a poem, but can only react to the content of a poem, which it judges as inspiring or boring or shocking according to its moral anxieties. Stock response is apt … Continue reading
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Cartographies à la carte
Jennifer Moxley “The Honest Cook’s Insomnia Druthers Brimful of good advice on not only cooking but also reading (by way of analogy). Don’t be smug about outdated foods. Remember, even iceberg lettuce was once thought elegant. However much of an … Continue reading
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Flagging
From Humanist 32.138 Fish’ing and the words in front of us Re: 32.135 Fish’ing and the words in front of us Willard I know you as one to problematize “words”. I too want to set aside for the time being … Continue reading
On the Menu
Kate Young. The Little Library Cookbook “On Reading” Whenever I’ve neglected them, books have sat, waiting patiently, always ready for me to come back. They are the true constant in my life, the grounding force, the comfort when I am … Continue reading
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Reading Round the Rosebud
Yvonne Blumer. Landscapes and Home: ghazals. (Lantzville, B.C.: Leaf Press, 2011) From the ninth, this sher stands out. It stands in the middle of the ghazal. The neighbour wants to kill deer that come down from the woods. They nip … Continue reading
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Reading Conditions
I love the camp tone of this opening… at least camp to me. The Perfect Library Imagine, if you will, a perfect library where the reading room is lit by the soft pulsing lights of fireflies & the wood that … Continue reading
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Embracing A Most Peculiar Aside
A Summary Account . . . (I should say somewhere about here that when I say “he” I also mean “she”: as the late President Smith used to say, man generally embraces woman.) Northrop Frye By Liberal Things (1959). This … Continue reading